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Mack: The                            Helen. Helen was my partner.        ephant, to replace her. But she
                                                                                 wasn’t getting trained soon
                                             As he started growing, he be-
        owner of the                         came very troublesome. Helen        enough  to  perform.  I  was  frus-
                                                                                 trated and I needed more people
                                             could not keep the patience
        Big Top Mall                         and she left me.                    to come to the circus to earn more
                                             Ivan grew and was too big to
                                                                                 money.  I  got  frustrated  and  was
                                             stay in my house. I brought         hard on Ruby.
               I am Mack! I am the owner     him to the circus and made                 People are protesting to
        of The Big Top Mall.  I have been    him a domain fit for his size.      close the circus. I am worried
        running this circus for the last few   People were very fond of him      about what I will do if my circus
        years.Today, there is a protest go-  and  took  pictures  with  him.     closes. How will I earn money?
        ing on outside my circus. People     Ivan was an artist too. He drew     My animals are my family. How
        used to peacefully enjoy my cir-     drawings and I sold them.           will I live without them?
        cus earlier and no one had a prob-   I made a lot of money with
        lem. They used to come with their    those drawings.                     - Kritanya Shah
        friends  and family.I  don’t know            I had  an elephant
        why , all of a sudden, people have   named Stella. People loved
        started hating my circus! I take     her too. But she started getting
        such good care of my animals         sick a lot and she died. I regret
        with all my heart. I feel very sad.  that I could have taken her to
               There are five animals in     the vet often. Maybe she would
        my circus. Among them, Ivan has      have been alive. But money
        been the closest to me. When he      was very tight!
        was small, he lived with me and      I brought Ruby, the baby el-
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